The problem, he says, with other productivity apps is they don't give you the "full view" of all the tasks you need to do or they only offer a myopic view of tasks one day at a time. What he wanted was the ability to zoom out to see all his tasks at once, but also get granular and see only the 3 tasks for the day. Enter Trello:

I love Trellobecause I can zoom in to as granular a detail as I want and zoom out just as much to get the bird's eye view. I first came across this great post about implementing the GTD in Trello which I then customized further. While I've always been a fan of GTD — implementing it seemed like a lot of work. Who wants to draw quadrants every single morning. What about tasks that don't fall in any of the four quadrants? And it seemed like a very analog way of organizing — while that has its merits, I needed something that I could carry with me at any time and some place where I could add more things as and when needed without having to re-do my list.

Ramdurai's system, which he describes how to set up, combines some of the principles of GTD with those of the Accidental Creative—and a data engineering mindset.

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Essentially, you set up the lists shown above, add tasks, and color-code them using Trello's labels (important, not important, urgent, and not urgent—a.k.a. Eisenhower's matrix). Drag the task cards around to prioritize them and cluster similar tasks together.

It's a neat system for getting the big picture while also focusing on what needs to be done on a day-to-day basis. Check out the link below for details on using this.